Our Mission
Our mission is to convey love as the true message of the cross, with the understanding that the cross stands for acceptance, inclusivity and unconditional love. We believe that love brings about healing from rejection and freedom from self-hatred.
Los Angeles Pre-Conference Session
May
17,
2008, 10:00am
Pacific Design Center, Silver
Screen Theatre , 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Please join us for a pre-conference session on Saturday, May 17,
2008 at 10:00 A.M. in the Silver Screen Theater of the Pacific Design
Center in West Hollywood, California. Jay Bakker (“One Punk
Under God”) will be our keynote speaker. Following Jay’s
address will be a panel discussion by religious conservatives and
gay affirming individuals. This will promote a new movement with
a new message and new consciousness of the scope of God’s
love.
Los Angeles Conference
Wake Up “To a Love that has No Limits”
Date:
TBD
Location: TBD
The WAKE UP Conference will be a two-day
event to help open a dialogue between the gay community, the
church and other places of worship. This campaign is designed to
spread God’s real message of love, acceptance and inclusivity.
Like the story of the Prodigal son, we are reminded to accept others
as we hope to be accepted ourselves. We are all invited to His banquet
table, regardless of race, gender, sex or sexuality and we are called
to love others unconditionally.
We hold the intention at this conference to empower those who have been rejected, devalued, and/or oppressed. We believe that there is a dire need for spiritual healing and renewal in our city and community. Yet how can change occur when people are at constant war with one another? Not until we create a place in which opinions and beliefs can be taken into consideration and valued, not until we approach our bothers and sisters with an open heart and an attentive ear will the age-old walls of separation come crumbling down. This campaign will use faith, hope, love and forgiveness as vehicles to gain a deeper sense of understanding and openness toward one another. Speakers Jay Bakker (“One Punk Under God”) www.revolutionchurch.com and Peggy Campolo will be joined by celebrities from the world of music and entertainment to help bring awareness and solidify greater communal understanding. Through this conversation we can learn to love ourselves and others as we are, not as we “should be”...despite our brokenness and our imperfections. This campaign is one that could be used around the country to perpetuate a new message and a revolutionary movement regarding the enormity of God’s love.
Palm Springs Post-Conference Session
Jan
24, 2009
University of California Riverside
The WAKE UP Campaign Palm Desert Launch will begin with speaker Jay Bakker, followed by a panel discussion made up of conservatives and liberals to begin the dialogue.
